A limited <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of this artistic rendition of the French translation of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Goethe&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Goethe</a>'s unfinished play, with lithographs by renowned sculptor <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry%20Moore&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry Moore</a>.<ul><li>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German).</li><li>Lithographs by Henry Moore (English).</li><li>Translated by Andre Gide.</li><li>[Paris]:&nbsp;Henri Jonquières / P. A. Nicaise,&nbsp;1950 (completed in 1951).</li><li>[2], 69 pages of loose folia.&nbsp;</li><li>Illustrated with 14 color lithographs.</li><li>Number 183 of 183.</li><li>Text in French.</li><li>Original brown pictorial wrapper, in original board clamshell box, with red lettering.</li></ul> Henry Moore created the lithographs for Prométhée at the height of his fame, as he began to take on more large-scale public works. Many of his illustrations feature a Dalí-esque stark landscape populated by abstracted epic figures, complimenting Goethe's retelling of the Greek creation myth — a fitting story to be executed by a sculptor.

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